Virtuous Cycle of Research in Engineering Education

The idea of RREE was first introduced to the Southeast Asian community during the 2007 Regional Conference in Engineering Education in Johor Bahra, Malaysia, by Prof. Karl Smith from Purdue University, USA, during a preconference work- 

As most of the participants in the engineering education research community in the region are trained in the engineering background, VCR relates the cycle of research using the similar steps in most of the scientific research, which are (Phang and Mohd-Yusof 2013)  

Following the initial idea given by Phang and Mohd-Yusof (2013), the VCR can be simplified as shown in Fig. 3.1. The research problems must come from the current practice such as problems in learning certain engineering topics and innovative teaching and learning approaches. Some examples are  

Chemical process control (Mohd-Ynsof et al. 2011, 2013b Helmi et al. 2013) 

Engineering edncation for snstainable development (Abdnl Aziz et al. 2013a, 2013b Mohd-Ynsof et al. 2013c) 

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